"Thy dead men shall live, my dead bodies# (i.e., the bodies of God's servants) they shall arise.

Awake! and sing! ye that dwell in the dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs," The meaning of the last clause is--that, as the grass, which in Oriental countries becomes brown and shrivelled by the heat of the sun; from the effects of the dew it changes and springs up, as it were, in a moment, green and fresh and beautiful; so, by the instantaneous influence of the word of God, the dry and decayed remains of mortality shall become blooming with immortal freshness and beauty.

See also Hosea xiii.14.I might easily multiply passages from the Old Testament, to prove that the doctrine of a resurrection was familiar to the ancient Israelites, but I suppose that what I have already produced, is sufficient.

Those, however, who wish to see the subject more thoroughly examined, are referred to "Greave's Lectures on the Pentateuch," a work lately published in Europe, highly honourable to the author.

See also a Tract upon this subject, published by Dr.Priestley, in 1801.
I shall only add one observation more on this subject, viz., that it is very singular that Christian divines should assert, that "life and immortality were first brought to light by the Gospel," when the New Testament itself represents the resurrection of the dead as being perfectly well known to the Jews, and describes Jesus himself as proving it to the Sadducees out of the Old Testament!!! CONCLUSION.
I have now finished my work, which I have written in order to exculpate myself, and to do justice to others; and having re-examined every link of the chain of my argument, I think it amply strong to support the conclusions attached to it.